United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Fourth Session of the Conference of the PartiesNovember 2-13, 1998

"I want to emphasize that we cannot wait until the [Kyoto] treaty is
negotiated and ratified to act [on global warming]," said President Clinton
before the UN met in Kyoto last December.

Textbook publishers have heeded Mr. Clinton's plea. The textbook entitled
Reading, Book I of the Kim Marshall Series (Educators Publishing Service,
Cambridge and Toronto, copyrights 1998,1992, 1981) is supposed to teach
reading comprehension. Instead, it teaches 9 and 10-year-olds about
villagers in Japan dying or suffering horrible deformities because of
mercury dumped in the ocean. The math textbooks, dubbed "Rain Forest
Algebra," also teach scary environmental scenarios in lieu of math.

But scientific evidence does not support the extremist views promoted by
politicians and textbook publishers. Scientists who promote such views
utilize computer models that are so inept that the sun's impact on climate
change cannot be factored in. They also admit that their models are in a
"very rapid phase of evolution."

Evidence opposing the global warming dogma is bountiful. Climatologists
report in the October 16, 1998 issue of Science magazine, that soil and
vegetation in North America, about 20% of the world's vegetated land,
absorbs annually as much carbon as is released into the atmosphere by North
American sources. That is good news for the U.S., one of only 34 nations
"legally bound" by the Treaty, if it should be ratified.

American industries and automobiles emit carbon dioxide (CO2) when they
burn fossil fuels. It is the major "greenhouse gas" blamed for the supposed
global warming. Natural sources that absorb the carbon, such as soil and
vegetation, are called carbon "sinks." In the U.S., natural "sinks" are
absorbing CO2 emissions. The climatologists in the Science magazine
attribute the existence of the North American carbon "sinks" to four
factors:

regrowth of U.S. forests from previous logging and agriculture;

an increased amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere due to industry and
agriculture that eventually winds up fertilizing plants, thereby
stimulating their growth;

an increased rate of photosynthesis due to the higher concentration of
CO2; and

During the ongoing UN meeting on the Kyoto Treaty in Buenos Aires, the U.S.
should argue that their ability to absorb excess CO2 in their natural
"sinks" offset their emissions. Therefore, the Kyoto Treaty should be
scrapped and the annual follow-up meetings should be discontinued.